Training and e-learning

  • Safely Home®: Online courses for care facilities and police and emergency services about emergency preparedness and search and rescue when people with dementia go missing.
  • The Physician Education Website for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias:  Part of a multi-faceted Ontario education program to inform and promote practice change on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
  • Dementia Education Website: Interactive learning modules, clinical practice and education resources.     
  • Dementia and disasters e-learning program: When planning responses to a disaster, what can be done to prepare to care for vulnerable older adults who are frail or who have dementia? This online resource, Emergency Management, Frailty, Dementia and Disasters: What Health Care Providers Need to Know is an e-learning program that helps health-care providers, administrators and policy makers understand the vulnerability of older adults, how emergency management applies to them, ways to improve emergency preparedness, and the role of health-care providers in protecting older people in emergencies and disasters. The program is hosted by the Canadian Dementia Resource and Knowledge Exchange and is available in both English and French.
  • Search is an emergency (pdf): Pre-plan manual for the search and rescue of missing people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
  • Canadian Dementia Resource And Knowledge Exchange (CDRAKE): A network of people dedicated to improving the quality of life for persons with dementia and their family members. CDRAKE and the Alzheimer Society of Canada co-host a number of webinars to share knowledge and resources about dementia. To listen to archived webinars, please click here.
  • The Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange (AKE): An Ontario-based website that facilitates the exchange of information, innovation and expertise among caregivers, educators, researchers and policy makers.
  • The Foundation for Medical Practice Education: Dedicated to the development, production and evaluation of educational programs for community-based family medicine and general practitioners.
  • International Psychogeriatric Association 
  • Sagelink: Online home of the Centre for Studies in Aging & Health at Providence Care. Sagelink is a web-based resource for geriatric patients, their caregivers and health professionals in south-east Ontario and beyond.
  • The Alzheimer Society and beyond: A clinical review article in Canadian Family Physician journal, December 2011 issue that discusses the benefits of referring people with dementia and caregivers to the Alzheimer Society.

Last Updated: 12/15/11